January Minutes

January 18, 2019 by lpbrewer

Baltibrew Monthly Meeting Minutes
January 17 @ De Kleine Duivel

Friday, February 15th - Baltibrew Invades Nepenthe
Saturday, March 2nd - Spring Group Brew @ Caiti’s
Saturday, March 23rd - MALT Bus Trip to Virginia Breweries
Sunday, April 14th - Brubakes!
Saturday, May 4th - AHA Big Brew
Saturday, June 1st - MD Homebrew Guild’s Picnic & Wheat Beer Competition 2 Patapsco St Partk
Saturday, July 13th - Lyft Trip to HoCo Breweries - Sapwood Cellars, Black Flag
August TBD - MashOut
September TBD - Zymurnaut’s Crab Feast @ Goddard Space Flight Center
Saturday, September 21st - Fall Group Brew @ Jon’s
Friday, October 11th - Chilibrew XIII
November TBD - Cider Buy and Wootown’s Mead Day
Saturday, December 7th - MD Guild’s Holiday Party
Thursday, December 12th - Baltibrew Holiday Potluck (No Regular Meeting)

Fewer officers
No more club gear…Auction?
We’d like to get a list together of what’s in Balitbrew’s inventory and then see what format makes the most sense to divest it.
New quorum: this month it’s 7 for simple majority, 9 for 2/3 majority

Becky has many things planned for this year. Caiti will be talking about wild fermentation at the next meeting and Judy from Checkspot will be coordinating a visit later in the year.
The sensory seibel kit will be done at the general meeting, probably split out between 3 or 4 dates so all club members have the chance to participate.

Kris’ challenged Jon to battle Hefeweizen. Judging will be at the March meeting!

Max’s Sour Wild Ale Day – Feb 18
Online engagement - Kris looked at some statistics and facebook does get us much engagement. Far more eye’s came to the site from posting on reddit. Greg advocated for trying a meetup group. It’s 10/15 dollars a month depending on the subscription level. We trimmed the IT costs down about that much last year by moving to new hosts and consolidating things so we’ll apply the savings to that for a while. Greg will follow up.